Background Medical dramas have been popular since their inception, especially among
medical students. We hypothesized that the recent increase in the availability of TV medical …

13 Reasons Why is a Netflix original series adapted from Jay Asher's 2007 young adult
novel with the same title. Season 1 premiered on March 31, 2017 and featured the sensitive …

Introduction Mental health and delivery of care is a global issue, that was only magnified by
COVID-19. Over the past 3 years, people's time spent watching television increased, while …

This paper explores how death is represented in the popular Netflix television series Squid
Game. While death is an overarching theme in this series, there is one feature of its …

Introduction Since their inception, TV medical dramas have been popular with the general
public, and especially with medical students. Some educators in biomedical disciplines have …

Death is a ubiquitous theme in television dramas and we argued that mediated depictions of
end-of-life experiences have the potential to provide glimpses into the ways in which …

Dopesick (2021) is the first TV series whose plot deals exclusively with the opioid crisis in
the United States. The current study uses narrative analysis and framing theory to explore …

Background Continuous deep sedation (CDS) can be used for patients at the end of life who
suffer intolerably from severe symptoms that cannot be relieved otherwise. In the …

According to terror and meaning management theories, positive death valence might
facilitate psychosocial intervention in social discrimination. The present theoretical article …

In this article, we examine primetime television as a source of entertainment-education on
death. Using directed (deductive) and conventional (inductive) approaches to content …